My first grow and journal

Yeah i know man.... I guess things are not right.
It is just a closet grow, but I was expecting more from this amount of time.
It was dollar general soil, plastic cups, and a 70w hps. I guess I had more hope than materials.
Ill take some pics and show the plants currently.

So here's the new pics. The plants have grown some and are lookin better.

Here is the stretched one I tried super cropping. You can see the 2 new growths at the bottom. They have grown a couple nodes each.






This is the smallest one I didn't do anything too.

another angle.


This is the one I tried topping on.
It actually worked. You can see the two tops growing out like a V.



Easier to see with the extra light.


Here is the best looking sprout. Gonna switch it over to a pot today.


And these two I'm gonna move today too.



But this one don't look like its gonna do anything.

Heres the whole closet.
The CFL's seem to be helping. They are growing a lot more leaves and gettin more dense.

Wassup RIU. Haven't been on here in awhile.
Heres the update.
So the 3 plants I started with turned out to be male.
The 4 I planted on the second round all turned out to be female.
Got some pics for ya.
I have 4 pics of a lil bud porn.
1st small budding.
2nd small budding
3rd the Twins, bud on top
4th pic is the male cola I smoked that actually got me pretty high for a couple hours.
5th the Twins, left plant is budding from under. You can see the 2 hairs comin out the bottom right of her.

Over-watered they look. Also nutrient burn is why the leafs aren't exactly green. I use FoxFarm soil and water with distilled water so I don't have to measure my ph levels because distilled usually sits in between the correct range. The Foxfarm won't burn your plants as well. Other then that your set up is fine and everything. I saw that you stopped by my grow and as you can see I only have x2 85 watt bulbs so in general your set up is better then mine. Also did you put perlite in the bottom of your pots in order to help drainage when you water your ladies?

Seems like this was forever ago haha, only 3 short years. Oh how much we can learn from experience.
Just goes to show you, you can read everything you want...just gotta get out there and learn for yourself.
Gotta start somewhere!
Guess this is a joke thread now LOL
Mostly, I keep it to show how easy it is to screw up but also how easy it is to get better.
For all the new fish out there, just keep swimming!